Re:Google Wave: too complicated for its own good
by axod on Thursday October 15, 2009 @05:55AM
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I agree with the strategy, although gmail is still reasonably small fry compared with yahoo + hotmail.
People probably keep harping on about live typing because it made no sense to include it. It's a gimmick rather than a useful feature.
Also it is too complicated for most people. You can't just ignore arguments and call them a 'meme' :)
Google replaces GMail's plumbing with Wave and the inherent abilities of Wave are introduced as GMail features. Robots, conversation splitting, collaboration, etc.
It's the only sane way to approach it, really.
And I have no idea why people keep harping on live typing. Google announced that there was going to be a way to turn it off about 5 minutes after they pulled the drape off Wave itself.
It's almost certainly a feature destined for the dustbin. As such, it's an utter red herring. Complaining about it is perhaps more pointless than the "it's too complicated" meme.